Not voting for Hillary doesn’t make me a bad feminist. In fact, voting for her solely because she is a woman would make me a bad feminist. I am a feminist poc who wants a president who will make positive changes for women, and Hillary Clinton just won’t do. I’m sure that in some respects she is a good candidate, but she’s sure as hell not mine.
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The power to bring me out of solitude – or to push me back into it – had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
What a nice feeling to love you, to know it’s right.
To meet my bestfriend for the first time, to feel your lips against mine.
Darling you are mine, even if far away, even now.
Honey I’ve melted under your eyes, and your arms, they’re heavenly and sinful at the same time.
Love, I’m alive, as long as you’re breathing, I’ll get by.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
I want to go to sleep at night, wake up every day, and breathe knowing you are truly mine.
Don’t know the source but a friend of mine posted this on Facebook and I found it very helpful!
In case no one told you growing up
- Bras last longer if you let them air dry. Don’t put them in the dryer.
- If you have a problem with frizzy hair, don’t dry your hair with a towel. It makes the frizzies worse. (I recently read an article that said to use a t-shirt? I brush mine out and let it air dry.)
- Whites wash best in hot water. Everything else can be in cold - save on your electricity bill.
- You can kill 99.9% of germs in a sponge by putting it in the dishwasher for a cycle or by microwaving it for 2 min (be sure to make the sponge damp before microwaving and to put a cup half full of water in with it and please DO NOT squeeze the sponge until it has cooled off)
- Airing out your room/house and letting sunlight in every so often can decrease the number of household pests like silverfish and ants.
- Black underwear is best during your period as stains are less likely to be visible.
- To save money, put aside 10% of each paycheck into a savings account. It’ll add up.
- Unless your hair has something on/in it (like grease or mud or something), using conditioner first can actually be the better choice. The conditioner holds in the good oils that help you hair look sleek and beautiful, which shampoo would otherwise wash away.
- Speaking of shampoo - if you have long hair, washing just the bits that touch your scalp is generally enough. The rest of your hair gets cleaned with just the run off from your scalp.
- If you put a tampon in and it’s uncomfortable/you can feel it, you didn’t do it quite right. A properly placed tampon is virtually unnoticeable by the wearer.
- Apply deodorant/antiperspirant a couple hours in advance of when you need it. This gives the product the chance to block your sweat glands. Using deodorant just before going somewhere where you’ll sweat (this means walking outside for people in high humidity places) results in your sweat washing the deodorant off and starkly limiting its usefulness.
- After running the dryer, use the dryer sheet from that load to brush out the lint catch - it gets everything off in a fraction of the time it’ll take you to get it clean with your bare hands. Paper towels also work well.
- Wash your face everyday, or as often as possible. Forget which brand of cleanser is best. Just washing your face everyday will guarantee you clearer skin. And do you best not to pop pimples, as tempting as the urge may be.
- Fold laundry asap after taking it from the dryer to avoid wrinkles. This may seem obvious for dress shirts and silly for things like t-shirts, but you’ll notice the difference even then once your shirts stop looking like unfolded paper balls.
To all the kids whose parents couldn’t help you with this kind of stuff
HOW TO: GET OVER BAD GRADES
At one point in our academic life (or many points in mine), we have all received a bad grade that isn’t really desirable. In that moment, it feels like the world has stopped as you bask in failure (that’s what I do anyway). BUT! After going through the same stage of pitying myself and wondering, why me?! I’ve learnt how to deal with bad grades to ensure that I’m not dwelling on the past and looking forward to the future!
So you go about your life,“ she said, “and I’ll go about mine,“
“And, the next time we see each other, everything will have changed but everything will be okay.
The day you left, I realised you were a rogue planet. That you didn’t orbit around anyone or anything. That you had no solar system and you found your way into mine, into my orbit, to stay with me just for a little while. But I couldn’t keep you. You weren’t meant to be a part of me. Our love was like the sun, ninety-nine percent of this solar system, but not nearly enough to keep you. Some things are more beautiful because they don’t belong to anyone or anything. That is how I would like to remember you. As something too wild for me to keep, rather than a thing that threw the sun away.

